Emergency

General Emergency Preparedness

Familiarize yourself with evacuation procedures for your building. Emergency Evacuation/Tornado Shelter maps are posted on the walls of all buildings.
Know where fire extinguishers are located in your building.
Each academic and administrative unit should determine an assembly point outside of your building in the event of a building evacuation.

foreWarn Emergency Alert System

Bradley University’s foreWarn emergency notification system is designed to provide information about an immediate, actively occurring, and confirmed emergency situation on campus (or an actively occurring threat that’s heading towards campus) that requires the community to take immediate action in order to stay safe. Depending on the exact nature of the situation, the system may utilize one or many of the components described below:

Text Messaging — BUPD will text subscribers in order to reach mobile users who may be away from their computers or offices. Bradley University students and employees are automatically enrolled in the text alert system. Contracted employees can enroll through their supervisor.
E-mail — Students and employees will receive a mass e-mail warning message. All email addresses automatically receive foreWarn Alerts and it’s not necessary to register. You may not opt-out of email alerts.
Public Address Systems — buildings equipped with public address systems may receive an audible message.
Outdoor Public Address Systems — most of the outdoor campus quad areas are covered by outdoor public address systems and may receive an audible message.
Be Connected App — emergency messages will appear in the Be Connected app.
“X” (formerly Twitter) — emergency messages will appear on the @BradleyU account and on the @BradleyUPolice account.
In most cases, more information will immediately be provided at www.bradley.edu.

We have partnered with Regroup, a top-rated, cloud-based mass notification platform used globally to enhance emergency communications. Regroup will power our foreWarn alert system, making it more efficient and reliable. All foreWarn emergency text messages will arrive from the shortcode 31002, 31098, 31389, 50753, 58847, 66219, or 66893 and will start with “foreWarn.”

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Additional Links

Dispatch Center
MacMillan Hall
Administrative Offices
Campustown
Emergency
911
University Police
(309) 677-2000
Safety Cruiser
(309) 677-2800
TTY
(309) 677-3265

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Emergency Operations Plan

One measure of an organization’s strength is its ability to respond well in an emergency. Since every scenario cannot be predicted, an emergency response plan must be able to quickly adapt to events as they unfold. This plan designates areas of responsibility and defines for Bradley University the administrative framework necessary to respond to emergency situations. This plan is tailored to respond to campus emergencies. It is divided into two sections – administrative framework and response framework. It is imperative that individual departments develop response plans for situations that may develop under their purview. The University response needs to be quick, professional, supportive, and meet the emerging demands of any emergency or crisis situation.

Classroom Alerts Policy

Effective August 26, 2008, all faculty or staff must:

Keep their cell phones on while in class, or;
If they don’t have a cell phone, designate a student to keep his/her cell phone active.

These phones must be registered with the University text messaging system to receive emergency alerts. Phones can be on vibrate in class as long as they can receive a text message. If you have not done so already, you can register at MyBU.

This policy is being instituted so that every classroom in every building will have access to the University text messaging system whenever a class is in session. The emergency text messaging system will be used when there is a danger to the campus or to test the system.

If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact your Dean.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Students should update their cell phone number in MyBradley and employees should update their cell phone number either in the “work mobile” or “personal mobile” fields of ADP. Contracted employees can enroll through their supervisor.

All current employees and all current students are automatically enrolled in the foreWarn emergency text message system and foreWarn email system.

To opt out, simply respond to a foreWarn emergency text message with “STOP”. However, because foreWarn will only be used to provide emergency information, we strongly recommend that you NOT opt out of these emergency text alerts.

To re-enroll in emergency text messaging, text “RESUME” to the number you sent “STOP” to.

foreWarn emergency email messages will be sent to all current students and employees. You cannot opt out.

Email messages will be delivered from forewarn.bradley.edu

At this time only students, employees and on campus contracted employees can enroll in text messaging.

Other questions? Contact the BUPD at 309-677-2000 or [email protected]